*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: Launched in 1963 in the wake of the success of Victor, Hornet followed its elder brother’s formula of sport, war and adventure stories, with a lot of ‘true life’ tales of heroism, and had a respectable run up until early 1976, when it merged with its stablemate Hotspur. Popular strips include ageless athlete ‘Wilson’; sporting polymath ‘Bouncing’ Bernard Briggs’; and ‘The Swamp Rat’, a muscular tattooed number who ran around the jungle in a pair of cut-off shorts terrorising the invading Japanese with his mongoose. No, that’s not a euphemism. We have a clutch of Free Gift Hornets from 1968 to 1970, opening with #264, where the gift, a gummed sheet of photos of footballers, has become partly stuck to the interiors over the years. #314 features the ‘Hornet Book of Football Facts and Photos’, and both #354 and #355 each feature a sheet of full-colour photo-cards of world cup stars, fortunately not stuck anywhere. #373 has the nicest gift of all, the Hornet Pop-Pistol, still in its original packaging and said packaging still glued inside the comic as it originally was, which unfortunately has caused some distortion and damage to the comic’s pages, but the gift is immaculate. #264 is GD with gift GD- £10; the remainder are pictured: #314 FN with gift VF £15, #354 FN with gift VF £15, #355 GD with gift VF £12.50 and #373 FA with gift VF £20. SORRY, THESE HAVE NOW SOLD